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The kid has psychological hang-ups over disappointing his father as a result of getting his leg seriously injured in a football game, thus crushing his father's hopes that the kid would be a football star. So, no reading the sports section.
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Kennel posted:I really want to know how this ends (or why it's such a big deal). It's a weird little EC series that is basically just dramatizations of psychoanalysis (as the title suggests). This case is about a kid who is spoiled and pampered and winds up kind of snide and rotten. He winds up stealing a watch so he gets sent to the titular psychoanalysis, in which it comes out that he was stealing to push back on his parents' controlling behavior and that his asthma is psychosomatic. Eventually it turns out he has a hatred of sports because his dad was a star college athlete and had high expectations for him that he was neurotic about not meeting. He wound up joining the football team and got badly hurt while trying to recreate a bold move his dad had pulled off once and his dad blamed him for it, accusing him of loving up on purpose to throw the game and spite the family tradition. It all gets a little baroque but by the end he resolves that liking arts and culture doesn't make him less of a man and that he can be interested in sports without getting bound up in his horrible dad's weird mind-games. Although since this is a 1950s comic book version of psychoanalysis it's more like "well now, since you understand now how you've disappointed and thwarted your father, you can now embrace him and make peace with him" instead of "your father is awful and is projecting his stupid issues onto you, sheesh I'm sorry." The whole issue run is currently in print through the EC Archives put out by Dark Horse and it's really weird and cool. I like comics and have a pretty strong research interest in mid-20th century psychoanalytical theory so I love having it, but it's goofy enough that I also just recommend it strongly to EC fans. Each issue is split up into four patients and over the four issues we follow each of them in through four separate sessions so it's kind of a neat structure too (kind of, one of the patients is cured in issue #3 and doesn't show up in the last issue). Is it a good comic? No no no not at all. It's drawn by Jack Kamen, one of the duller EC artists, and while it was, interestingly, partially written by Dan Keyes of "Flowers For Algernon" fame it is pretty clunky and the therapeutic approach shown here often looks loving ghastly to modern eyes. However it is super duper suis generis, it is absolutely unlike anything else out there and is probably one of EC's wildest swings for the fences after having to shutter so much of their line. Absolutely bananas stuff. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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that's kinda neat! cannot remember the actual comic this is from, sorry.
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Apr 12, 2021 16:08
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In Grant Morrison's "Zenith", a cabal of extremely powerful superhumans have issued an ultimatum to the world's governments. Zenith, a second generation superhero/pop star, and St John, a first generation superhero/MP, have come to confront them. Also Acid Archie is there, who is a bright pink disco robot.     
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God I fuckin loved Zenith When I was a kid, I should reread that.
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Apr 12, 2021 16:40
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I was actually reading 2000ad when that arc was published. Such a great ending. I got nostalgic for a bunch of 2000ad stories last year and read the earlier Zenith arcs too. Its not obvious here but I love how Zenith is a self-centred dick through the whole thing. Also, the politician dude there is a Tory, and I'm sure it's implied he used his powers to get Thatcher elected. It's a really weird take on superheroes, so in conclusion, read Zenith.
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After decades of rights issues, you can get all of Zenith collected in four hardcovers and it's well worth it.
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How Wonderful! posted:Is it a good comic? No no no not at all. It's drawn by Jack Kamen, one of the duller EC artists, and while it was, interestingly, partially written by Dan Keyes of "Flowers For Algernon" fame it is pretty clunky and the therapeutic approach shown here often looks loving ghastly to modern eyes. However it is super duper suis generis, it is absolutely unlike anything else out there and is probably one of EC's wildest swings for the fences after having to shutter so much of their line. Absolutely bananas stuff.
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"just increase your production of serotonin" easy for you to say, mister superhero. ... Control over brain chemistry would be an amazing superpower.
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Wayyy back in the day I was playing a superhero tabletop RPG and my character's power was complete control over his body chemistry, which let him manifest brief bursts of superhuman agility or strength as he increased his adrenaline levels and other things like that, let him hyper-concentrate on problems to gain intelligence boosts, etc. It also gave him situational bonuses to charisma and resistance to pain. The downside was using his powers gave him mood swings like a motherfucker.
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Zetsubou-san posted:that's kinda neat! It's from Deadpool Corps, not sure which issue. You can tell because Headpool is there. (Decapitated gead from one of the zombie universes. Flies using a propeller beanie.) Unrelated.  WildC.A.T.S. v1 #24
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R.I.P. H.A.R.M. you truly lived your dream.
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Dareon posted:"just increase your production of serotonin" easy for you to say, mister superhero. In fairness, everyone in that room would be potentially able to that, other than Archie.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:In Grant Morrison's "Zenith", a cabal of extremely powerful superhumans have issued an ultimatum to the world's governments. Zenith, a second generation superhero/pop star, and St John, a first generation superhero/MP, have come to confront them. Are you sure this is the right thread cos the way Archie went out was both tragic and badass before the twist reveal at the end of the story at least
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 Fantastic Four #56 (1966)  Mighty Samson #6 (1966)
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Unkempt posted:
Please, like I specifically requested at the beginning of this meeting, no questions about my name.
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Unkempt posted:
"But I'm a geologist." "Fifty. Thousand. Dollars."
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Apr 13, 2021 20:23
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Unkempt posted:
He really does not get on with his mother's two sisters.
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I'm betting that's actually Red Skull in disguise.
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I appreciate his specifying that the money is tax free to people who apparently file taxes, presumably listing as self-employed and "hired killer" under their profession
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Apr 13, 2021 20:50
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site posted:I appreciate his specifying that the money is tax free to people who apparently file taxes, presumably listing as self-employed and "hired killer" under their profession Well taxes is how they got Capone, so have to be on the up and up there.
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site posted:I appreciate his specifying that the money is tax free to people who apparently file taxes, presumably listing as self-employed and "hired killer" under their profession They're some of the nation's top scientists!
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site posted:I appreciate his specifying that the money is tax free to people who apparently file taxes, presumably listing as self-employed and "hired killer" under their profession Just pull off a Lex Luthor. You're not killing a person, you are solving a problem. So put it down as a Consultation fee.
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site posted:I appreciate his specifying that the money is tax free to people who apparently file taxes, presumably listing as self-employed and "hired killer" under their profession Look, accountants will tell you even if you're a drug dealer you pay taxes on your income.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:In Grant Morrison's "Zenith", a cabal of extremely powerful superhumans have issued an ultimatum to the world's governments. Zenith, a second generation superhero/pop star, and St John, a first generation superhero/MP, have come to confront them. What exactly are the antagonists's ultimatum to the world's governments here?
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Zil posted:I never knew of Chipmunk Hunk before, I guess I need to read Squirrel Girl. You're in for a treat, friend. 
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Red posted:You're in for a treat, friend. It’s NYC they’ve already got a Spider-Man to deal with things
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amigolupus posted:What exactly are the antagonists's ultimatum to the world's governments here? Well they broke StJohn's favourite paperweight, for one thing. Then they did this.  Exactly the kind of thing you'd send a pink disco robot to deal with.
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thetoughestbean posted:It’s NYC they’ve already got a Spider-Man to deal with things That threat and/or menace?! No wonder SG needs to make sure things are buttoned down!
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Seeing people not having read usg gives me the same reaction to people somehow not reading immortal hulk
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Exactly the kind of thing you'd send a pink disco robot to deal with. Maybe its me, but I feel that the Venn diagram of "things that need to dealt with" and "things that I can send a pink disco robot to deal with" is probably a circle.
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That... Explains a lot about Tom King's style of writing.
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I'm sorry, what am I looking at again? Rorschach(?), a lady Lone Ranger(??), and Frank Miller(???) talking about coffee and god, trying to do a Grant Morrison's Animal Man? I dunno about funny, but without context it sure looks cringe as hell.
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as far as i understand the comics industry decided that watchmen needed further books set in its world and that's part of it
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Saoshyant posted:I'm sorry, what am I looking at again? I'm assuming it is from Tom King's Rorschach book. Which, like everything else Watchmen related that isn't directly done by Alan Moore, didn't need to exist.
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Rorschach is pretty good. It's not what you'd think, but I'd expect nothing less from comic fans to dunk on something they haven't read because it's different from the original.
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Somberbrero posted:It's not what you'd think Well, what is it about? Looking into Tom King, he wrote that Vision comic five years ago that I rather liked, but that's as far as my experience with his work goes.
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muscles like this! posted:I'm assuming it is from Tom King's Rorschach book. Which, like everything else Watchmen related that isn't directly done by Alan Moore, didn't need to exist. I was linked a tweet about it that showed up in Discord but I can't access otherwise, so I'm quoting the tweet here and linking the reply with the image. "somehow this ends (I am not making this up) with Frank Miller dressed in a Rorschach costume sitting making a speech about how the real events of Watchmen made him realize The Dark Knight Returns is poo poo compared to the original Spider-Man comics" https://twitter.com/HugoBedward/status/1382005077427228681?s=20
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